This table displays the selected game’s current values on four BGG outcomes (UsersRated, Average, GeekRating, Weight) along with my predictive model(s) estimated values for where these games are likely to end up.
Published | ID | Name | Type | UserRatings | Average | GeekRating | Weight |
2021 | Current | 2,101 | 7.97 | 6.65 | 2.94 | ||
Estimated | 2,600 | 7.93 | 6.93 | 2.61 |
To see more information about the game on boardgamegeek, click on the game’s ID or Name to go straight to the game’s profile page.
Description |
Revered for its healing techniques, the town of Yharnam is rapidly degrading as a plague that turns people into beasts spreads uncontrollably. As a Hunter, it falls to you to quell this growing threat. You will have to fight through beasts, monsters, and townsfolk alike to survive the night and discover the source of this madness. |
Information on the game’s designers, artists, families, mechanics and categories from BGG.
Published | ID | Name | Publisher(s) | Designer(s) | Artist(s) | Categories | Families | Mechanics |
2021 | CMON Global Limited | Eric M. Lang | Arnaud Boudoiron | Adventure | Category: Dungeon Crawler | Campaign / Battle Card Driven | ||
ADC Blackfire Entertainment | Michael Shinall | Henning Ludvigsen | Fantasy | Crowdfunding: Kickstarter | Cooperative Game | |||
Asmodee | Aragorn Marks | Horror | Deck, Bag, and Pool Building | |||||
Asmodee Italia | Mike McVey | Miniatures | Hand Management | |||||
Funforge | Edgar Ramos | Video Game Theme | Modular Board | |||||
Galápagos Jogos | Storytelling | |||||||
Lavka Games | Variable Player Powers | |||||||
Portal Games | ||||||||
For the full profile of the selected game, click on the links in the table or go to https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/273330
For each of the predictions above, I used models that were trained on historical boardgamegeek data in order to predict the selected game. How did the model(s) arrive at their predictions? The following plot displays Shapley values to indicate what features were most influential for the model’s predictions. Anything in blue increased the model’s predictions, anything in red decreased the model’s predictions.
What games are similar to Bloodborne: The Board Game? I compare the selected game to every other game on boardgamegeek based on its mechanics, playing time, complexity, and game type. The tables below display the games which had the most similar data to Bloodborne: The Board Game. The reported similarity is the cosine similarity between the selected game and all other games published before 2021.
This similarity score ranges from -1 to 1, where similarity of 1 indicates that games are exactly identical (a game will have a score of 1 with itself).
Note: This analysis does not look at a game’s ratings on BGG, publisher, artist, or designer - it focuses on finding similar games based on how they play, not how they are rated or by their theme.
The table below displays games with the most similar data to Bloodborne: The Board Game. Click on a game’s ID or Name to go straight to its profile on boardgamegeek.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 1.00 | 6.65 | 7.97 | 2.61 | 2,101 | ||
1 | 2015 | 0.86 | 6.32 | 7.51 | 2.73 | 1,422 | ||
2 | 2017 | 0.86 | 5.60 | 6.25 | 2.43 | 302 | ||
3 | 2018 | 0.85 | 5.92 | 7.35 | 2.88 | 581 | ||
4 | 2010 | 0.84 | 5.57 | 6.07 | 1.87 | 280 | ||
5 | 2016 | 0.84 | 5.94 | 6.83 | 2.62 | 1,097 | ||
6 | 2019 | 0.84 | 5.52 | 6.55 | 2.33 | 41 | ||
7 | 2014 | 0.84 | 6.44 | 7.11 | 2.39 | 2,783 | ||
8 | 2018 | 0.84 | 5.70 | 7.06 | 1.85 | 388 | ||
9 | 2019 | 0.84 | 6.07 | 7.79 | 3.00 | 708 | ||
10 | 2013 | 0.83 | 5.55 | 6.55 | 3.17 | 120 | ||
11 | 2012 | 0.83 | 7.04 | 7.27 | 2.72 | 17,977 | ||
12 | 2019 | 0.83 | 5.97 | 7.94 | 2.29 | 533 | ||
13 | 2019 | 0.82 | 5.57 | 6.70 | 2.50 | 104 | ||
14 | 2017 | 0.82 | 5.57 | 6.66 | 2.50 | 132 | ||
15 | 2004 | 0.82 | 5.89 | 6.80 | 3.04 | 834 | ||
16 | 2019 | 0.82 | 6.01 | 8.04 | 2.78 | 677 | ||
17 | 2017 | 0.82 | 5.54 | 6.61 | 3.33 | 116 | ||
18 | 2018 | 0.81 | 5.57 | 7.42 | 2.00 | 82 | ||
19 | 2019 | 0.81 | 7.59 | 8.22 | 3.30 | 8,851 | ||
20 | 2012 | 0.81 | 6.21 | 6.97 | 2.49 | 1,636 | ||
21 | 2013 | 0.81 | 5.67 | 5.97 | 2.26 | 1,129 | ||
22 | 2020 | 0.80 | 5.55 | 8.45 | 2.00 | 44 | ||
23 | 2019 | 0.80 | 5.58 | 7.18 | 2.00 | 108 | ||
24 | 2017 | 0.80 | 5.87 | 7.24 | 3.44 | 626 | ||
25 | 2017 | 0.80 | 5.57 | 7.41 | 3.00 | 85 |
Click on the ID or Name for any game to go its profile page on boardgamegeek.
What games are similar to Bloodborne: The Board Game while also being highly rated by the boardgamegeek community? In this table I multiply every neighboring game’s similarity score by its GeekRating. The resulting score is an attempt to balance these two quantities.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Score | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 6.65 | 1.00 | 6.65 | 7.97 | 2.61 | 2,101 | ||
1 | 2019 | 6.17 | 0.81 | 7.59 | 8.22 | 3.30 | 8,851 | ||
2 | 2019 | 5.89 | 0.78 | 7.54 | 7.99 | 2.60 | 12,158 | ||
3 | 2012 | 5.85 | 0.83 | 7.04 | 7.27 | 2.72 | 17,977 | ||
4 | 2013 | 5.68 | 0.75 | 7.54 | 7.78 | 3.32 | 32,251 | ||
5 | 2019 | 5.53 | 0.79 | 6.96 | 8.80 | 4.02 | 1,868 | ||
6 | 2017 | 5.51 | 0.78 | 7.07 | 7.97 | 4.07 | 4,242 | ||
7 | 2015 | 5.47 | 0.86 | 6.32 | 7.51 | 2.73 | 1,422 | ||
8 | 2018 | 5.42 | 0.76 | 7.14 | 7.75 | 3.33 | 6,839 | ||
9 | 2014 | 5.40 | 0.84 | 6.44 | 7.11 | 2.39 | 2,783 | ||
10 | 2011 | 5.37 | 0.77 | 6.94 | 7.19 | 2.51 | 15,369 | ||
11 | 2015 | 5.22 | 0.77 | 6.80 | 7.34 | 2.71 | 5,165 | ||
12 | 2010 | 5.22 | 0.77 | 6.81 | 7.29 | 2.72 | 5,320 | ||
13 | 2018 | 5.12 | 0.73 | 6.97 | 7.51 | 2.41 | 5,712 | ||
14 | 2000 | 5.11 | 0.78 | 6.58 | 6.74 | 2.56 | 14,948 | ||
15 | 2013 | Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Base Set | 5.09 | 0.74 | 6.91 | 7.19 | 2.71 | 12,355 | |
16 | 2013 | 5.09 | 0.75 | 6.76 | 7.38 | 2.68 | 4,472 | ||
17 | 2019 | 5.09 | 0.84 | 6.07 | 7.79 | 3.00 | 708 | ||
18 | 2020 | 5.06 | 0.76 | 6.63 | 8.04 | 3.45 | 1,960 | ||
19 | 2014 | Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles – Base Set | 5.04 | 0.77 | 6.52 | 7.30 | 2.92 | 2,515 | |
20 | 2019 | 5.04 | 0.78 | 6.45 | 7.89 | 2.92 | 1,571 | ||
21 | 2012 | 5.03 | 0.81 | 6.21 | 6.97 | 2.49 | 1,636 | ||
22 | 2017 | 5.01 | 0.77 | 6.50 | 6.94 | 2.99 | 6,374 | ||
23 | 2018 | 5.01 | 0.85 | 5.92 | 7.35 | 2.88 | 581 | ||
24 | 2016 | 5.00 | 0.84 | 5.94 | 6.83 | 2.62 | 1,097 | ||
25 | 2019 | 4.95 | 0.83 | 5.97 | 7.94 | 2.29 | 533 |
I first ran a dimension reduction method (PCA) to identify the main points of variation for games on BGG. The first 25 components explained roughly 50% of the overall variation in the dataset, so I computed the cosine similarity between every game’s score on these 25 components.
This plotscores are based on 25 principal components - the next table displays the selected game and its neighbors profiles on each of these components.